Heather, Mike, Luke, Meghan
Multiple Intelligences Chapter 3
Summary-
Chapter three was all about how to assess your students multiple intelligences. Armstrong throws out many ideas on how to go about doing this. The first being collecting documents; there are many different ways to go about doing this as well. Taking pictures of the students working in the classroom or just keeping a journal on your students. Simply observing the students might be useful as well. A teacher could go to the guidance office and look into a students file for report cards, past teachers note’s; anything that would allow a teacher to get a better reading of a student. Another strategy could be to talk to these past teachers, see what worked for them to get through to the student and helped the student excel. Maybe a different approach could be to talk with the parent(s) of the child. Parents, most of the time, know their children the best. Other times they may be no help at all. The last and easiest route would be to simply ask the student her/him self. They know how they learn or what may at least work best for them.
Reflections-
We as a group are a little divided on this chapter. One of us thought that this chapter was very helpful and informative. Another disliked it because they felt they are being told to spy on their students, which may cause strain on their teacher- student relationship. A different perspective was that the methods were good but when going to apply them they felt apprehensive about talking to parents. Lastly, there was a suggestion that maybe from kindergarten on thru, each teacher should write down what they perceived as the students intelligences. This could help the new teacher with the child’s learning style(s) and maybe help them push the student into a different learning style to help develop other multiple intelligences. Either way we all were very split.
MB
No comments:
Post a Comment